Re: [privacy] Want a beer at the pub? Have your prints taken

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, der Mouse wrote:
> > > In places with socialized medicine, deliberately ingesting potent
> > > carcinogens *does* hurt others, eventually, even when done
> > > privately.  (I don't know whether IL is such a place.)
> > We are actually (if you mean government sponsored health care).
>
> That's the commonest form of socialized medicine, yes (and, while I'm
> not aware of any others, I wouldn't be so rash as to state that it is
> the only one).
>
> > I see your point, and raise you, define a public place.  I am with
> > the prohibition on public places, but our terminology may vary.
>
> I'm not entirely sure where I stand on that.  To me the line between
> public places and private places is not, in general, clear-cut.

Okay, let's begin at extremes. Should smoking, if we ignore safety issues,
be allowed on air planes?

> I'm also not entirely sure where I stand on smoking bans in public
> places (for pretty much any definition of "public places").  In my
> (limited) experience they generally strike me as having positive
> effects, but they also strike me as government meddling where I'm not
> sure it has any business meddling.

Extremes:
1. Government property?
2. Parks?
3. Enclosed spaces, which are places of business holding more than 10
people in them.

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